Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-02
Can Win ifThey VIII.

The New York Herald, which is in
no sense a party organ and which is the
most nearly impartial of all the great
newspapers of the country i'm its judg-
ment of men and events, In a review Of
the political situation finds very little
that the Republicans can take any
comfort in. So completely has the re-
cord Of the present administration dis
proven the dismal predictions of
calamity and ruin made by Republi-
cans before the election and so we'll has
it managed the affairs of the country
that the people have confidence in it
and see no reason for making a change.
1.-THE administration has made so clean
a record" the Herald goes on to say,
THAT it can go before the country on
its merits without fear or hazard The
Democratic party is rapidly consolidat-
ing, and large number of Republicans
who hope for continuance of our pre-
sent commercial prosperity, who desire
the government to maintain peaceful
relations with neighboring powers and
with foreign nations, and who take q
patriotic pride in that even-handed
justice which holds the rights of the
humblest settler as sacred as those of
the biggest monopoly or corporation, are
uniting in the demand for q second
term of national economy and con-
servatism."
The one great argument made use of
by the Republicans three years ago was
| that the election of a Democratic Presi-
dent would ruin the country. A great
many honest and well-meaning people
were really persuaded that change
from Republican to Democratic control
would restore slavery, destroy the good
results of the war, injure business and
bring about widespread distress. There
were no doubt many good Republicans,
cautious, conservative men, who were
deceived by these representations and
who had no doubt that under Demo-
cratic president the country would go
to ruin.
Well, it has not gone to ruin. None
of the dire predictions have come to
pass, the Herald thinks, is of a kind
] that the country would like more Of
ut is the ruin of larger business
activity from the eastern frontier of
Maine to the Golden Gate of California.
1t is the ruin of an increased and
increasing sense of security and public
confidence everywhere. The Demo-
cratic policy has helped the south to
get on its feet and taught the new
generation that there is more important
work on hand than digging up the
skeletons of old issues and rattling their
bones before the public eye. 1t has de-
clared that the government ought to be
run on the basis of strict economy, and
that all taxation over and above what
such economy demands is robbery of
the people. 1t has investigated the
most rotten method of disposing of the
public domain which ever cursed o
patient and forbearing nation; discover
ed that millions of acres have been
stolen outright-the peoples property,
the salvation of the republic for the
next hundred years-and started the
} machinery of reform which may grind
) afew land barons to powder, but which
) will show that Democratic President
4 is the poor mans friend and that all
r the resources at his command are on
! the poor mans side when he is oppres-
sed.n
The conclusion of the Herald from
all this is that "the Democratic party
can win because it deserves to. 1t can
/ win on its record. The Democratic
party is the poor mans party, and if
the poor men of this country fill up
= their chasms, heal their difficulties and
go into the fight with unbroken ranks,
/ the raid of the aristocratic Republicans
6 on Washington will show them their
: Waterloo" ."-Pdin Dealer.